WHY HE CELEBRATES JULY 4.
W. T. Stead Says It Is in Reality a
British Holiday.
M. H. Levingston, 319 Ridge building, recently sent to W. T. Stead, London, editor of Review of Reviews, an editorial from The Journal commenting upon Mr. Stead's tribute to American national heroes. Yesterday Mr. Levingston received the following form Mr. Stead:
London, March 2, 1909
Mr. M. H. Levinston, 309 Ridge building, Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Mr. Levingston: I am very much obliged to you for your kindness in sending me the cutting from your paper and added thereto an an appreciation of the tribute which I paid to your national heroes. It has been my habit for many years past to attend the annual celebration of the Fourth of July at Browning's Settlement, at which my brother is the warden, in Southeast London, for we claim that the Fourth of July is an English national festival for it celebrates the victory of the English idea championed by George Washington over the German ideas which were put forth by George III. I am, sincerely,
W. T Stead.
